Deep facial vein

Blood vessel

Deep facial vein
Details
Drains to	Facial vein
Identifiers
Latin	vena profunda faciei
TA98	A12.3.05.027
TA2	4826
FMA	50916
Anatomical terminology [edit on Wikidata]

The anterior facial vein receives a branch of considerable size, the deep facial vein, from the pterygoid venous plexus.

References

Public domain This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 645 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

Veins of the head and neck

Retromandibular	maxillary pterygoid plexus superficial temporal anterior auricular
Direct	posterior auricular transverse cervical suprascapular anterior jugular jugular venous arch

Superficial:	superior superficial middle inferior inferior anastomotic (Labbé) superior anastomotic (Trolard)
Deep:	great internal basal deep middle superior thalamostriate choroid septal

To COS	superior sagittal straight inferior sagittal occipital
To CS	sphenoparietal intercavernous superior ophthalmic ethmoidal central retinal nasofrontal vorticose veins inferior ophthalmic
To IJV	sigmoid: transverse petrosquamous superior petrosal inferior petrosal basilar plexus internal auditory veins condylar